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· The wealthy people would live a life of luxury. They would attend fine parties, had nice food and could buy whatever pleased them. The rich also liked to attend assemblies. They go to these because if they do not they are supposable seen from the public eye as lazy and selfish. · They children Athens would attend there tutors house to learn. Their tutor’s house is similar to our schools. When they have finished with their tutor and it is about mid-day the boys would head off to the academy. At the academy there would be boys of their age ready to train. They would practise wrestling and boxing, even in extreme temperatures. · The slaves are owned by a wealthy or middle class person. They would do anything they are told and would busily help in their business. They could get freedom if they married into the family or had got enough money to pay for their freedom.Information supplied by http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/athens/story/sto_set.html on the 16-08-10-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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Life in Athens Athens had yearly festivals for athletics, drama and religious occasions. The city taxes paid some of the cost, but rich citizens had to pay extra. Important people in Athens were the strategoi, who were ten generals chosen from each of the ten "tribes" of citizens. There were also nine archons. Their jobs were mostly ceremonial, to do with festivals and family matters. One of the archons had to organize the Dionysia Festival, for the god Dionysos, every year. It was a time for fun, wine-drinking, parties and plays. Every man aged 20 to 50 or more could be "called up" for military service. A rich man might have to serve as captain of a warship for a year. He paid the crew and made repairs. Athens was the largest city in Greece, and controlled a region called Attica. Between the many mountains were fertile valleys, with many farms. Athens became rich because Attica also had valuable sources of silver, lead and marble. Athens also had the biggest navy in Greece. Athens was a beautiful and busy city. People came to the city from all over Greece, and from other countries, to study and to trade. The city's most famous building was the temple called the Parthenon. It stood on a rocky hill called the Acropolis. Inside the Parthenon stood a statue of the city's protector-goddess Athena. SCHOOLS:
Schools in Athens were very different to the schools in Sparta. During 5th century B.C. almost all the schools were private. They were very small, with no more than 10-15 students. Only the wealthy could afford to send their children to school because the private tutors who owned the schools asked a lot of money to teach. Later on, in the 4th century B.C. some public schools opened to teach the poorer children . In Athens, boys started school around the age of 7. They were taught very similar things to what we are taught today, reading, writing, music and physical training. These subjects were each taught by a different teacher . Maths wasn’t considered a very important subject, and was hardly ever studied. Athenian boys learned letters and numbers by scratching them onto wax-coated wooden boards using a pen called a stylus. After the boys learned to read and write, they had to study Greek poetry and plays, and famous Greek history. Music was very important. All of the boys were taught to play an instrument called a lyre, which was very popular at the time. They were also taught to play the flute. Their physical education classes include wrestling and gymnastics. Athenian teacher's tried to teach the boys to be wise and decent men, as well as a good soldier. Girls in Athens didn't go to school. They were taught how to do house work by their mothers. Parents were afraid that girls would get spoiled if they learned how to read.
Questions to answer:
1. In public schools opened to teach poor children.
2. Boys started school around the age of . 3. Boys learned sports such as and _.4. A popular instrument at the time was a .5. _ wasn't important.
6. Girls were taught .
7. Boys used pens called .
8. The first private schools were . 9. Subjects were taught by teachers.10. They had to study and _.
Only a small amount of Greek children were taught how to read and write.
The women were closest to the children, because they spent so much time with them. Until they were about seven, they spent everyday in the woman's quarters.
Child birth in Ancient Greece was very risky.
Wives were expected to have one baby after another.
A lady unable to bear children thought herself cursed by the Gods.
A girl who died childless was thought useless and had lived for no purpose
The life of a young boy in Ancient Athens: After breakfast, a child of middle-class goes with his paidagogos ( A slave who helped teach the children of a Greek family) to the tutors house. The children would learn about Greek history like Odysseus. In the afternoon, the child would go to an academy of Athens. At the Academy, children would learn skills which children learn at school today like reading, writing and physical education. They would train with other children of their age. Even though the weather may be unpleasant, in the mid afternoon, the child must practice their physical activity like boxing and wrestling. At the end of the day, dinner would be eaten and then later the child would go to bed. The life style of a child in the ancient times in Athens was actually quite similar to what ours is at the moment. The life of a young girl in Ancient Athens: · A young girl would learn to read either at school or at home. The boys also learnt how to read · They also learnt how to do simple skills which they would need when they were older like cooking, sewing, weaving, and other jobs around the house. · The girls also learnt simple facts on mythology, religion, and sometimes learnt skills for hobbies like playing musical instruments. · In their teens, the girls got married to a male whom was normally in their thirty’s. Childhood The children of Greece lived which their mothers with all of the women in their quarter until they were about seven years of age; even if they were boys. They often rested in wooden baskets or cradles. During the day, the children played with balls, small child-sized chariots, dolls and other types of toys. Most children also had pets including dogs, quails, birds, grasshoppers and mice. When boys were seven years of age, they went to school. School In the city-states of Ancient Greece, the schooling varied. In Athens, the father was in charge of education of their child/children. Students who belonged to wealthy families were normally taught by private school masters. They were also taken to school by a dependable slave. The children learnt how to write on a covered tablets with a stylus. During the Ancient times of Athens, books were very expensive so it was unlikely to come across them. They also learnt mathematical skills like adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying. The teachers of the children were always males. The boys also had memorise everything. Sport was also apart of their daily regime. The wealthy children also had the choice to do horse riding. Other sports that the boys participated in wrestling, learning how to use a bow and sling, and swimming. They also learnt about fractions. At age 14 boys attended a higher school for four additional years. At age 18 boys went to military school. They graduated at the age of 20. Men In Greece the men ran the government. They spent most of their time involved in politics. The additional spare time they had they used farming the crops. Men sailed, hunted and traded. The men didn’t spend much of their time at home. Some of the men's hobbies were wrestling, riding horses and the Olympic games. Men often had parties which women weren't invited or allowed to attend. Women Women had little freedom in Greece. Even the wealthy women didn’t have much freedom and where rarely allowed outside. The women sent slaves to the markets to pick up food and other necessities. Although they were not allowed to go outside, there was an exception to attend funerals, weddings and some religious festivals. The women's main job was to run the house and take care of the children who didn’t attend school. They also supervised the slaves cooking, cleaning and farming. Male slaves would guard the women when the dominant male was away. Some women would teach their daughters who couldn’t attend school. They would teach the basics of reading and math. The women would teach the girls how to run the household. Women lived in a separate part of the house called a gynaeceum. MARRIAGE Before a wedding it was traditional for the girl to bath in a spring. The girl was then worshipped. Marriages in Athens were usually held in January and were held in the dark. After the wedding the bride travelled to her groom's house in a chariot. The ceremony was arranged by the bride's father. The girls married at about 15 years of age and the groom would be around double her age. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_greece/daily_life.htm?tql-iframe> http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_greece/daily_life.htmhttp://greece.mrdonn.org/ http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/ancientchix/ http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/athens/story/sto_set.html http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/athens/challenge/cha_set.html
Athens In Athens, there are many pictures showing people participating in sport, but there is also a lot of evidence that the Athenians enjoyed things such as bard games and knucklebones. Knucklebones was a game where you have to have five small ankle bones from animals. With these, you would throw and catch bones in different ways. It's like the modern game of Jack's. For example, the player would throw up the first bone, pick up another while it was in the air, and then catch the first bone as it came down. A second stage was played by throwing two bones in the air while picking up a third bone, and so on. In Athens, they would have assembly's at least once a week and citizens of Athens could give ideas on the town. Citizens had to be adult males. Anthenians, women, slaves and foreigners weren't allowed to vote or be leader. Athens Township The Athens much loved country because of the rich tradition of Ancient Greece. The population in Greece is close to 5 million, which makes it very busy city. The Athens is very much involved with Greek Mythology, because it is often mentioned in the stories. Athens is the oldest named city in the world and has been continuously inhabited for over 4000 years. The Athens was first built between the plains of the mountains of Attika, Parnitha, Penteli, Hymettos, and close to the Saronic Golf. Food In the Athens they ate a lot of bread, salt fish, fruit and vegetables and olive oil. At every meal they would drink wine. They loved to eat meat but it was rare because it was expensive, they would eat it at festivals. Another food that the Athens liked was barley cakes with honey. They never ate potatoes and used a small amount of spices but many herbs. Athens also ate some unpleasant tasting foods, such as goat lungs, sea urchins that were raw and alive, octopuses and grasshoppers. The Greeks would eat nearly everything they could find. Accommodation Athens was home to many people, and their rules and regulations were different to the Spartans. Even though the state was so large they didn’t have a say like a police force. So the members of the household would have to make sure that the members of the household and even servants and slaves obeyed the law, for the leader. Unlike other places, the Athens houses fortunes were not passed down from father to son, they were often split in half between his living family. It took 5 generations for an Athens family to become wealthy and higher in class. Historians believe that a middle class family would have at least one slave in their household, because you had to buy them and hen feed them. It was easy to tell which Athens family was rich and poor, because of how big the house was. The house were very simple, and most of them had a courtyard to let the children play in. In the house the women kept to more private parts of the house while the men used its public areas. The women's area was located at the back of the house guarded by a male slave, depending on how rich they were. Men had a part in the house which they ate and relaxed on called the androm. Most houses had 7 androm but in families there could be around 15. BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOK: Ancient Greek Homes BOOKS: Ancient Greek livingBook: The Greeks by Fiona Macdonald When Athens and Sparta started of as being powerful they were not a democracy they were ruled by Kings. Then once the Athens and Sparta got rid of the kings they were then ruled by small groups of powerful people. Later on once the powerful men had lost all their power over the people, Athens came to be ruled by the people as a democracy. Athens and Sparta were the biggest and the most powerful states. Athens was a city with lots of beautiful public buildings, shops and public baths. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war and was the person that represents Athens. The legend says that Athena and Poseidon had a contest to have the city named after them but it hasn't been confirmed true. Another interesting fact about Athens is that boys had to go to school but girls were home schooled http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/athens.htm Athenian navy Project. The Athenian navy was the centre of Athenian power. Every Ancient Greek city was famous for something. Athens for its Democracy and Navy. Sparta for its Army and Olympia for the Olympic Games. The Navy really put Athens on the map. The Athenian navy was the best in the world at its time. Their ships were the fastest strongest and moved and turned much better. The Athenian navy was created to protect Athens from Sparta. And all of its other enemies. Thanks to the Athenian navy the Spartans could not attack Athens by sea. But in the end the Spartans still won the Peloponnesian war. By marching to Athens by land. The Athenian navy was not only used for war. The navy was used to bring in new riches and food from other parts of the world. The Athenian navy also set up many colonies in Italy and Sicily and made Ancient Greece very rich.
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In Ancient Athens there were many different types of people. There were the middle class, rich and poor. Athens was filled with rich masters, Women selling their clothes on the streets, slaves working for masters in their house or work, boys and girls attending school and Musicians. Women outside during day, working, were often criticized.
· Musicians would use up their day practising and perfecting their skills on their instrument .They would also attend wealthy people’s parties and play music for their entertainment. They would often dismiss in the early morning.
· The wealthy people would live a life of luxury. They would attend fine parties, had nice food and could buy whatever pleased them. The rich also liked to attend assemblies. They go to these because if they do not they are supposable seen from the public eye as lazy and selfish.
· They children Athens would attend there tutors house to learn. Their tutor’s house is similar to our schools. When they have finished with their tutor and it is about mid-day the boys would head off to the academy. At the academy there would be boys of their age ready to train. They would practise wrestling and boxing, even in extreme temperatures.
· The slaves are owned by a wealthy or middle class person. They would do anything they are told and would busily help in their business. They could get freedom if they married into the family or had got enough money to pay for their freedom.Information supplied by http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/athens/story/sto_set.html on the 16-08-10-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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Life in Athens
Athens had yearly festivals for athletics, drama and religious occasions. The city taxes paid some of the cost, but rich citizens had to pay extra. Important people in Athens were the strategoi, who were ten generals chosen from each of the ten "tribes" of citizens.
There were also nine archons. Their jobs were mostly ceremonial, to do with festivals and family matters.
One of the archons had to organize the Dionysia Festival, for the god Dionysos, every year. It was a time for fun, wine-drinking, parties and plays.
Every man aged 20 to 50 or more could be "called up" for military service. A rich man might have to serve as captain of a warship for a year. He paid the crew and made repairs.
Athens was the largest city in Greece, and controlled a region called Attica. Between the many mountains were fertile valleys, with many farms. Athens became rich because Attica also had valuable sources of silver, lead and marble. Athens also had the biggest navy in Greece.
Athens was a beautiful and busy city. People came to the city from all over Greece, and from other countries, to study and to trade. The city's most famous building was the temple called the Parthenon. It stood on a rocky hill called the Acropolis. Inside the Parthenon stood a statue of the city's protector-goddess Athena.
SCHOOLS:
Schools in Athens were very different to the schools in Sparta. During 5th century B.C. almost all the schools were private. They were very small, with no more than 10-15 students. Only the wealthy could afford to send their children to school because the private tutors who owned the schools asked a lot of money to teach. Later on, in the 4th century B.C. some public schools opened to teach the poorer children . In Athens, boys started school around the age of 7. They were taught very similar things to what we are taught today, reading, writing, music and physical training. These subjects were each taught by a different teacher . Maths wasn’t considered a very important subject, and was hardly ever studied. Athenian boys learned letters and numbers by scratching them onto wax-coated wooden boards using a pen called a stylus. After the boys learned to read and write, they had to study Greek poetry and plays, and famous Greek history. Music was very important. All of the boys were taught to play an instrument called a lyre, which was very popular at the time. They were also taught to play the flute. Their physical education classes include wrestling and gymnastics. Athenian teacher's tried to teach the boys to be wise and decent men, as well as a good soldier. Girls in Athens didn't go to school. They were taught how to do house work by their mothers. Parents were afraid that girls would get spoiled if they learned how to read.
Questions to answer:
1. In public schools opened to teach poor children.
2. Boys started school around the age of .
3. Boys learned sports such as and _.4. A popular instrument at the time was a .5. _ wasn't important.
6. Girls were taught .
7. Boys used pens called .
8. The first private schools were .
9. Subjects were taught by teachers.10. They had to study and _.
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The life of a young boy in Ancient Athens:
After breakfast, a child of middle-class goes with his paidagogos ( A slave who helped teach the children of a Greek family) to the tutors house. The children would learn about Greek history like Odysseus. In the afternoon, the child would go to an academy of Athens. At the Academy, children would learn skills which children learn at school today like reading, writing and physical education. They would train with other children of their age. Even though the weather may be unpleasant, in the mid afternoon, the child must practice their physical activity like boxing and wrestling. At the end of the day, dinner would be eaten and then later the child would go to bed. The life style of a child in the ancient times in Athens was actually quite similar to what ours is at the moment.
The life of a young girl in Ancient Athens:
· A young girl would learn to read either at school or at home. The boys also learnt how to read · They also learnt how to do simple skills which they would need when they were older like cooking, sewing, weaving, and other jobs around the house. · The girls also learnt simple facts on mythology, religion, and sometimes learnt skills for hobbies like playing musical instruments. · In their teens, the girls got married to a male whom was normally in their thirty’s.
Childhood
The children of Greece lived which their mothers with all of the women in their quarter until they were about seven years of age; even if they were boys. They often rested in wooden baskets or cradles. During the day, the children played with balls, small child-sized chariots, dolls and other types of toys. Most children also had pets including dogs, quails, birds, grasshoppers and mice. When boys were seven years of age, they went to school.
School
In the city-states of Ancient Greece, the schooling varied. In Athens, the father was in charge of education of their child/children. Students who belonged to wealthy families were normally taught by private school masters. They were also taken to school by a dependable slave. The children learnt how to write on a covered tablets with a stylus. During the Ancient times of Athens, books were very expensive so it was unlikely to come across them. They also learnt mathematical skills like adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying. The teachers of the children were always males. The boys also had memorise everything. Sport was also apart of their daily regime. The wealthy children also had the choice to do horse riding. Other sports that the boys participated in wrestling, learning how to use a bow and sling, and swimming.
They also learnt about fractions. At age 14 boys attended a higher school for four additional years. At age 18 boys went to military school. They graduated at the age of 20.
Men In Greece the men ran the government. They spent most of their time involved in politics. The additional spare time they had they used farming the crops. Men sailed, hunted and traded. The men didn’t spend much of their time at home. Some of the men's hobbies were wrestling, riding horses and the Olympic games. Men often had parties which women weren't invited or allowed to attend.
Women Women had little freedom in Greece. Even the wealthy women didn’t have much freedom and where rarely allowed outside. The women sent slaves to the markets to pick up food and other necessities. Although they were not allowed to go outside, there was an exception to attend funerals, weddings and some religious festivals. The women's main job was to run the house and take care of the children who didn’t attend school. They also supervised the slaves cooking, cleaning and farming. Male slaves would guard the women when the dominant male was away. Some women would teach their daughters who couldn’t attend school. They would teach the basics of reading and math. The women would teach the girls how to run the household. Women lived in a separate part of the house called a gynaeceum.
MARRIAGE
Before a wedding it was traditional for the girl to bath in a spring. The girl was then worshipped. Marriages in Athens were usually held in January and were held in the dark. After the wedding the bride travelled to her groom's house in a chariot. The ceremony was arranged by the bride's father. The girls married at about 15 years of age and the groom would be around double her age.
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Athens
In Athens, there are many pictures showing people participating in sport, but there is also a lot of evidence that the Athenians enjoyed things such as bard games and knucklebones. Knucklebones was a game where you have to have five small ankle bones from animals. With these, you would throw and catch bones in different ways. It's like the modern game of Jack's. For example, the player would throw up the first bone, pick up another while it was in the air, and then catch the first bone as it came down. A second stage was played by throwing two bones in the air while picking up a third bone, and so on.
In Athens, they would have assembly's at least once a week and citizens of Athens could give ideas on the town.
Citizens had to be adult males. Anthenians, women, slaves and foreigners weren't allowed to vote or be leader.
Athens Township
The Athens much loved country because of the rich tradition of Ancient Greece. The population in Greece is close to 5 million, which makes it very busy city. The Athens is very much involved with Greek Mythology, because it is often mentioned in the stories. Athens is the oldest named city in the world and has been continuously inhabited for over 4000 years.
The Athens was first built between the plains of the mountains of Attika, Parnitha, Penteli, Hymettos, and close to the Saronic Golf.
Food
In the Athens they ate a lot of bread, salt fish, fruit and vegetables and olive oil. At every meal they would drink wine. They loved to eat meat but it was rare because it was expensive, they would eat it at festivals. Another food that the Athens liked was barley cakes with honey. They never ate potatoes and used a small amount of spices but many herbs.
Athens also ate some unpleasant tasting foods, such as goat lungs, sea urchins that were raw and alive, octopuses and grasshoppers. The Greeks would eat nearly everything they could find.
Accommodation
Athens was home to many people, and their rules and regulations were different to the Spartans. Even though the state was so large they didn’t have a say like a police force. So the members of the household would have to make sure that the members of the household and even servants and slaves obeyed the law, for the leader. Unlike other places, the Athens houses fortunes were not passed down from father to son, they were often split in half between his living family. It took 5 generations for an Athens family to become wealthy and higher in class. Historians believe that a middle class family would have at least one slave in their household, because you had to buy them and hen feed them. It was easy to tell which Athens family was rich and poor, because of how big the house was. The house were very simple, and most of them had a courtyard to let the children play in. In the house the women kept to more private parts of the house while the men used its public areas. The women's area was located at the back of the house guarded by a male slave, depending on how rich they were. Men had a part in the house which they ate and relaxed on called the androm. Most houses had 7 androm but in families there could be around 15.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BOOK: Ancient Greek Homes BOOKS: Ancient Greek livingBook: The Greeks by Fiona Macdonald
When Athens and Sparta started of as being powerful they were not a democracy they were ruled by Kings. Then once the Athens and Sparta got rid of the kings they were then ruled by small groups of powerful people. Later on once the powerful men had lost all their power over the people, Athens came to be ruled by the people as a democracy. Athens and Sparta were the biggest and the most powerful states. Athens was a city with lots of beautiful public buildings, shops and public baths. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war and was the person that represents Athens. The legend says that Athena and Poseidon had a contest to have the city named after them but it hasn't been confirmed true. Another interesting fact about Athens is that boys had to go to school but girls were home schooled
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Athenian navy Project.
The Athenian navy was the centre of Athenian power. Every Ancient Greek city was famous for something. Athens for its Democracy and Navy. Sparta for its Army and Olympia for the Olympic Games. The Navy really put Athens on the map. The Athenian navy was the best in the world at its time. Their ships were the fastest strongest and moved and turned much better. The Athenian navy was created to protect Athens from Sparta. And all of its other enemies. Thanks to the Athenian navy the Spartans could not attack Athens by sea. But in the end the Spartans still won the Peloponnesian war. By marching to Athens by land. The Athenian navy was not only used for war. The navy was used to bring in new riches and food from other parts of the world. The Athenian navy also set up many colonies in Italy and Sicily and made Ancient Greece very rich.